I hope Obama during his inaguration speech with the Chimperor watching pulls out an EO closing Gitmo and maybe a few other wipe his face in it moves and really lets him have it. Then on day 2, extradites the whole lot of them to the Hague.

trust me

I CAN convince you that this is a crime against humanity

you don’t want that …

georgie porgie created one hell of a “Catch 22″ there, didn’t he ???

(24-spell-check, please…)

so what’s the fucking point ???

george bush’s show trials are an embarrasment to America, they serve no purpose. they will be suspended with prejudice the second presnit bunny pants leaves office

kinda makes you wonder why it took so long for these prosecutors to catch on

soon it will be time to try those who created these kangaroo courts

working for george bush is gonna be as healthy as working for stalin or hitler

I have NO SYMPATHY for anybody who participated in these trials

if false evidence was entered (under the LEGAL DEFINITION of evidence) we got laws to punish that

if false charges were proffered, we got laws …

if illegal rulings were issued, we got laws …

the next presnit bunny pants ain’t gonna get any cooperation if we hang everybody who violated a law at the behest of george w bush

LETS HANG US SOME FUCKING LAWYERS

I’m wondering how this jives with what the “clean teams” from the FBI may or may not have done with Jawad.

Unfortunately, we already have US precedent in Padilla and Salah (although those were not military cases) both allowing on the one hand, a long series of torture that was just on whim and for experimenation (not in connection with a confession) can just be ignored by a US court, even when applied to a US citizen on US soil. And in Salah we have the ok for negating claims of torture by having identity concealed men who face no real perjury or obstruction threat of any kind give secret testimony that everything was fine. IIRC, in Salah you had members of an agency that the Israeli S. Ct said had been engaging in torture, one of the kinds of torture they engaged in was sleep deprivation, the prisoner claimed sleep deprivation and even was able to get logs showing that he was kept out of the general detention at night, time after time, as support – - – and the prosecution presented to the court as “explanation” the hooded guys saying that, ‘oh yeah, did we forget to mention that Salah asked us to be allowed to sleep in the [no bed] interrogation room instead of having to go back, so we just did that to accomodate him’ and the court bit on that?

Still, to have a military commissions Judge be tougher than the whole of the legal corps at DOJ together and use a real definition applied to real facts, rather than backing into a definition that will get Bush what he wants and making up facts or just ignoring facts in application —- that’s really something. They deserve more than a book – they deserve someone to have to be accountable for the careers that were destroyed in standing up for the rule of law and they deserve a nation that appreciates their sacrifice and commitment and shows that appreciation.

The world being what it is, I don’t truly believe they’ll get that, but I’ll send up my prayers for them and try to believe it.

That’s a nice zinger from Frakt, about Henley’s use of a serious definition of torture. That’s aimed directly at the structure and rules of the military commissions. I hope someone is writing a book about the JAGs and all they have done at GTMO — they deserve to be honoured.

Top that with this wonder of wonders: Charlie Crist, former butt-monkey for John McCain, issued an executive order yesterday extending early voting hours to 7 to 7 from the 9 to 5 for weekdays and forcing counties to add 12 more hours this weekend, also. The R’s are not amused, but they have to be somewhat reserved in their comments because they can’t be too obvious about wanting to prevent voting. [It was the R legislature that put in the lame early voting hours.]